Systems Thinking

Systems thinking - The fifth discipline of the learning organisation, this sees problems in the context of the whole. Applications developed with systems thinking see the application scope within the context of its value chain and the enterprise as a whole, defining data as a sharable and reusable resource.

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Source: Larry English, http://www.iaidq.com/main/glossary.shtml , 11-Feb-2009 14:17

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Systems thinking - Any process of estimating how local policies and actions influence the state of the neighboring universe. Everyone is a Systems Thinker - some more neighborly than others.

The development of a Systems Thinking Model and intervention involves five phases:

   1) problem structuring
   2) causal loop modeling
   3) dynamic modeling
   4) scenario planning and modeling
   5) implementation and organizational learning

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Source: iSixSigma, 26 February 2011 09:30:38, https:web.archive.org/web/20111109014246/http:www.isixsigma.com/index.php?option=com_glossary